SGER: Information Retrieval and Exchange under Extreme Pressure

危机管理组织（cmo）因其在过去几年的重大灾难中表现不理想而受到批评。为了使应急响应人员在极端的时间限制和心理压力下做出正确的决策，有必要开始了解应急响应人员的信息检索和交换行为，并追溯信息，了解哪些CMO生产和消费哪些类型的信息，它们如何相互作用，以及如何促进开发更容易被应急响应人员接受的信息交换系统。这笔赠款将开始分析各种伪应急演习中的信息检索和交换行为。这些是荷兰的COPI（指挥官地点事件小组）演习，将在鹿特丹港进行。美国的研究将从演习参与者那里收集数据，这将揭示a)信息价值和最佳决策时机价值之间的关系，b)对共享信息系统的控制和信息质量的评估，c)即时公共安全需求和敏感信息的安全性，d)在严重压力下的信息（非）聚合和（非）信息处理的集中化。这笔拨款将支持与荷兰研究人员建立国际研究伙伴关系，这些研究人员可以访问国际研究中心。2007年12月、2008年2月和2008年5月的组织灾难应对演习（即COPI）。这项研究将为更大的、潜在的变革性研究奠定基础（即信息和关系的分类和缩放方案），从而从根本上改变cmo共享信息的方式。未来的研究将开发自适应应急响应信息交换（ERIX）系统的机制和协议。设想的系统可以确保一个令人满意的相互作用水平。在极端压力条件下的组织信息共享，并帮助相关cmo之间建立信息交换关系，即使cmo以前从未共享过他们的信息。拟议的研究将为变革性研究提供初始参数（例如，分类、度量、应急信息的属性和组织关系）和可行性措施。还可以通过纳入本项目的研究结果来改进应急响应人员的信息系统。广泛影响根据这笔赠款收集的数据将有助于更好地了解危机管理和应对领域的信息流动和相关决策。扩大我们对这些主题的知识和理解显然有利于更广泛的社会；这项研究的国际方面只会使这一点更具吸引力。

Crisis Management Organizations (CMOs) have been criticized for their less-than-ideal-performance through the major disasters of the past few years. In order for emergency responders to make right decisions under extreme time constraints and psychological pressure,it is necessary to begin to understand the information retrieval and exchange behaviors of emergency responders, and trace the information back to find out which CMO produces and consumes what types of information, how they interact, and what facilitates developing more readily acceptable information exchange systems for emergency responders.This grant will begin the process of analyzing information retrieval and exchange behavior in various pseudo emergency response exercises. These are Dutch COPI(Commander Place Incident Team) exercises that will be conducted in the Port of Rotterdam. The US research will collect data from participants of the exercises, which will shed light on relationships between a) the value of information and the value of optimal decision timing, b) control over shared information systems and valuation of information quality, c) immediate public safety needs and security of sensitive information, and d) (dis)aggregation of information and (de)centralization of information processing under severe pressure. This grant will support the development of an international research partnership with Dutch researchers who have access to the inter?organizational disaster response exercises (i.e., COPI) in Dec. 2007, February 2008 and May 2008.Intellectual MeritThis research will build a foundation (i.e., categorization and scaling schemes for information and relationships) for larger, potentially transformative research that can fundamentally change the way that CMOs share information. Future research will develop mechanisms and protocols for an adaptive Emergency Responder Information Exchange (ERIX) system. The envisaged system can ensure a satisfactory level of inter?organizational information sharing in extreme pressure conditions and help establish information exchange relationships among relevant CMOs, even if the CMOs have never shared their information before. The proposed research will provide initial parameters (e.g., taxonomy, metrics, attributes of emergency information and organizational relationships) and feasibility measures to the transformative research, Information systems for emergency responders can also be improved by incorporating findings from this project.Broad ImpactThe data to be collected under this grant will contribute to a better understanding of the flow of information and related decisions in the crisis management and response arena. Expansion of our knowledge and understanding of these topics clearly stand to benefit the broader society; this is only made more appealing by the international aspects of the research.